A History of Boston
Seven hundred pages on the city that keeps exporting radical ideas, from Puritan settlement through abolition and busing to biotech. Long, and consistently readable.
Seven hundred pages on a city that has repeatedly supplied American radical ideas, from Puritan settlement through abolition and immigration to busing and biotech. Long, clearly written, and organised around Boston as an exporter of arguments rather than as a place things happened to. Dain is candid about whether that tradition still holds.
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Tyler Cowen
772 pp., clearly written and consistently interesting. Most of all one receives the sense of Boston as a place with a long history of radical ideas.
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